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US 4,900,082 AGranted
Front section for a motor vehicle, especially a passenger motor vehicle
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsNorbert Schwuchow, Gerhard Burk
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AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsNorbert Schwuchow, Gerhard Burk
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A front section for a motor vehicle, especially passenger motor vehicle which has the task during normal driving operation to absorb without permanent deformation the forces stemming from the wheel suspension and to absorb by deformation the energy occurring in case of an impact of the vehicle. The front section according to the invention should be manufacturable cost-favorably and rationally with a small number of parts and is to offer a high safety for the vehicle passengers. The end wall of the front section is thereby divided horizontally into an upper part and a lower part, and the fork bearer is made of an upper shell and of a lower shell while one shell of the fork bearer is made in one piece with the lower part of the end wall. The front section made in this manner offers additionally a high degree of safety for the vehicle passengers in the passenger cell and is suited especially for passenger motor vehicles in which longitudinal bearers are supported at an end wall by way of fork bearers.
A front section for a motor vehicle, especially passenger motor vehicle, comprising two longitudinal bearer means provided at a distance to the center longitudinal axis of the vehicle, a fork bearer means constructed as hollow profile and connecting a respective longitudinal bearer means with an end wall means of the passenger cell, the end wall means being divided substantially horizontally into an upper part and a lower part, the fork bearer means being made of an upper shell means and a lower shell means, and at least one shell means of the fork bearer means being made in one piece with one of the two parts of the end wall means.
A method for making a front section of a motor vehicle, which includes two longitudinal bearers provided at a distance to the center longitudinal axis and one fork bearer each connecting a respective longitudinal bearer with an end wall and constructed as hollow profile and divided substantially horizontally into an upper part and a lower part, comprising the steps of making the end wall lower part with formed-on fork bearer shell of two halves symmetrical to the center axis of the vehicle by forming the two halves in unison as deep-drawn pot, subdividing the deep-drawn pot in a cutting plane perpendicular to the pot bottom so that the two halves are present separated from one another, and thereafter joining the two halves into the end wall lower part symmetrical to the center axis.
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